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G. NORBERTL.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY 6.1916.

1,243,092. Patented 00p 15, 1917.

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APPLICATION FILED 1u LY 6,1916.

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GIOVANNI NORBERTI, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GIOVANNI NORBERTI, a subject of the Kingdom of Italy, and a resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk My invention relates to folding cot beds,

and especially to those designed for the use of soldiers and others sleeping in the open air; and it has for its purpose the effecting of the hereinafter described improvements in details of construction.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the cot in a closed position. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view of the cot when open, and with the canopysupports in their operative position. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on a larger scale on the dotted line XX in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of a portion of the main pivotal bar at the place where it passes through the legs. Fig. 6 is a vertical longitudinal section of the parts of the cot at one end thereof. Fig. 7 is a front elevation of the cot in operative position, with the hood or canopy partially in place. Fig. 8 is a front elevation of the cot in use, with a corner of its canopy raised.

The cot comprises two frames pivotally united and jointly supporting a canvas mattress. The main frame is composed of legs 1, 2, a bar 3 uniting the upper ends of these legs, and a pivotal bar 1. The other frame is composed of legs 5, 6 united at their upper ends by a bar 7, and pivoted to the legs 1, 2 at the ends 8 of the bar 3.

Upon the bar 7, which is preferably tubular, is rotatively mounted a tube or barrel 11 carrying a sheet of canvas 12 to constitute the mattress, whose opposite edge is attached to the bar 3. A helical spring 26 fastened at its end 31 to the barrel 11 and at its end 32 to the bar 7, (Fig. 6) serves to wind up the canvas 12 upon the barrel 11; balls 25.

suitably kept in place by collars 24, rendering the rotation comparatively easy.

By swinging the bars 3 and 7 apart, the mattress is unwound to its full width and to its usable condition, and bringing the bars together, permits the mattress to automatically wind on its barrel 11.

I prefer to have the parts so proportioned that the frame comprising legs 1, 2 and bar Specification of Letters Patent.

, Patented. Oct. 16, 1917.

Application filed July 6, 1916. Serial No. 107,869.

3 will fit within the frame members 5, 6 and 7 when folded together as shown in Figs.

1, 5 and 6 for the sake of compactness and for the further object of enabling the parts to be locked together. For this latter purpose,

arod 20 is slidably located in each end of the tubular bar 3.- Each rod or handle 20 is provided with a rounded head 38 designed to engage a depression in the leg 60r 5, as

shown in Fig. 6, a helical spring 34 being provided for throwing the handle outward. To keep the handles 20 from being thrown entirely out from the bar 3, the springs 34: are each fastened at one end by a screw 35 to a plug 36 tight within the bar, and at the other end by a screw 33 held by the handle. When the cot is opened, the handles 20 spring outward to a distance suitable for being grasped if it is desired to use the cot as a stretcher, the bar 7 being elongated at each end to form cooperating handles, as shown in Fig. 1.

Beneath the bar 3 is an angle-iron bar 17 fastened at its ends to the legs 1 and 2, as by screws 27, and to this bar 17 is pivoted at 10 a strap E of some suitable metal, jointed at A and also at A, as shown in Figs. 3 and 1, one of these jointed straps being at each extremity of the bar 17. These straps being first swung on the pivots 10 away from their stowed-away positions beside the bar 17 to substantially vertical positions, are then flexed to the angles shown in Fig. 3, with the free extremities made to engage the projections C (Fig. 4) of the bar 7.

Thus disposed, the straps E will support both the V-shaped curtains G upon the hooks B, and the curtain 14 which is normally wound on the curtain roller 15. Thus supported, with its extreme corners attached to the spurs 16 (Fig. 6), any one lying upon the mattress is fully protected against wind and rain. When the curtains G and curtains or hoods 14 are not in use, they are all rolled up on the roller 15.

As shown in Fig. 4, a latch 22 is provided for locking the straps E and their extensions F snugly in place when not in use.

What I claim is:

1. A cot comprising two pivotally united frames fitted to fold one with the other, each frame having side bars, the side bar of the frame which folds within the other being terminally tubular, handles slidable in said tubular ends, springs for pressing the handles outward, and. fixed. handles for the other frame, said handles enabling the cot to be used as a stretcher, and said slidable handles being adapted to engage the other frame and to lock the two frames together.

when in their closed condition.

2. A cot comprising two pivotally united frames disposed to fold one-within the other, each frame having side bars, the side bars:

of the outer frame being terminally extended to form handles, and the other side bars being terminally tubular, a handle slidable within each tubular end, and a helical spring adapted for yieldingly pressing each slidable handle outward, the outervframe having depressions disposedfor receiving the slidable handles when the frames are closed, and thereby locking them in such position.

3. Thecombination with acct, of a hood or canopy support therefor comprising a rod .NORBERTI GIOVANNI.

Witnesses:

MARY E. BURT, ELIZABETH -BURT.

Copies-of .this patent may be obtained for five cents each,-by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

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